The Arab: I would be pleased with the job that you do not
want to do, but you have alienated me, you have humiliated and crushed me.

Woman: You could stay in your country!

The Arab: I was hungry, instead you stuff yourself like a
pig.

Pig: Who does call me? What do you want?

Man: Nobody wants you pig.

The Arab: Neither do I, I would not like you even if you
were roasted!

Pig: But someone spoke about me!

The Arab: It was me, I was making a comparison.

Pig: Make it on yourself! (He draws back)

Woman: Are these our accusers?

The Angel: There are more beginning with your domestic
friends. Dog come forward!

Dog: I am speaking on behalf of all my fellows of every
race.

Woman: What is the matter with you?

Dog: You shut up! You are guiltier than man. We are an
object, you turn us away and you abandon us when you go on vacation.

Woman: What are you talking about?

Dog: You regard us as a trophy, as a toy for your children
and then you throw us away as a useless thing, without thinking that we are
living beings.

Man: That is enough, you are going too far!

Dog: Am I going too far? I could write several novels as
those already written on our endless and never rewarded loyalty and abnegation.

Man: There are different cases, you cannot generalise!

Dog: You have to admit your misdeeds. Years of chase, of
cold and hot weather to serve you in the hunting and then when old, how did you
reward us? In many cases you killed us or you left us in a wood. You are a pig.

Pig: Who does call me?

Man: Go away pig! The dog mentioned you in vain.

Dog: Sorry pig I made a mistake, he is worse than you.

Pig: Stop this comparisons! (The pig goes out)

Donkey: If you do not mind it is my turn to speak.

The Angel: What do you have to say?

Donkey: Man has exploited us for centuries, then because of
the lorry, he excluded us without saying a single thank you…

Woman: (She does not let him go on) You cannot stop progress!

Donkey: Moreover they make bad comparisons with us.

The Angel: What is wrong with it?

Donkey: For example the word "donkey" for them
means a person who does not want to study.

Man: Even the donkey… that is all we needed!

The Angel: He has the right to speak!

Donkey: Thank you! (addressing the angel). You have to stop
doing these comparisons.

Woman: It is not so serious!

Donkey: And what about the comparison 'he is as stubborn as
a mule'?

Wolf: Do not make such a fuss donkey!

The Angel: What is the problem wolf?

Wolf: I am tired of being exploited in the tales, in the
comic-strip…

Woman: You have got nothing to complain, you are famous.

Wolf: Yes I am famous, but I have a bad reputation. I am the
bad wolf.

Woman: But this is true!

Wolf: No it is not true! I hunt to eat instead people regard
me as the symbol of fear. I am mentioned even in the song!

Man: But it is funny!

Wolf: Funny? Do you think is it funny being the terror of
children?

The Angel: It is time to stop doing these bad comparisons
between men and animals.

Pig: Sorry… but I have something to say.

Woman: Let is hear it!

Pig: You for example, you make an improper use of our name.

Woman: Me? What do you mean by that?

Pig: The first word you say against man when something is
wrong is 'you are a pig'! You cannot deny it.

Woman: It is a way of speaking.

Pig: I do not want you to make comparisons with man ever
again!

Cat: I have something to say too!

Woman: Oh you…! What do you want?

Cat: We are an object for you… then when you like, you throw
us away.

Woman: I found out that we were allergic to you.

Cat: After living together for several years?

Woman: Of course! Your cleaning made us allergic.

Cat: What?

Woman: Yes… the doctor told us that when you lick yourself
it is not only cleaning.

Cat: And… what is that?

Woman: Some animals and you too do not sweat… so in order to
keep your temperature uniform, you have to humidify your fur with the spit
which evaporating makes it cold…

Cat: Go on!

Woman: And so that spit cause me itching, asthma and
allergy.

Cat: Are there any cures?

Woman: Sure… but they are too expensive.

Cat: It is less expensive to throw us away… is not it?
Moreover you make comparisons with us and I do not like that.

Man: What comparisons?

Cat: Comparisons between me and the woman, for example…
'cat's eyes' or 'she purrs like a cat'…

Parrot: And so? What should I say…?! (coming) They want me
to talk like them, they teach me their swearwords.

Woman: Not only those though.

Parrot: You take us away from our natural habitat and you
oblige us to stay in a cage and to live in different climates.

Man: But you keep us company!

Parrot: Moreover you compare us to a person who often
repeats the same words telling him 'you repeat parrot-fashion'.

Woman: It is not so bad!

Parrot: No… it is very serious! You catch us, you separate
us from our natural habitat and you deprive us of our partner and of the flight
in which we live.

Man: You are talking like a man!

Parrot: The imprisonment and the solitude make us nervous,
scourged, unhappy. Every year more than a million of parrots are taken away
from their natural habitat and a lot of them die.

Man: You are exaggerating!

Parrot: Not at all! Of the three-hundred eighty known
species, at least fifty of them are dying out and a lot of birds of different
species have already died out.

The Angel: These are just a part of your accusers.

Man: What about the others?

The goldfinch: I have been captured, imprisoned and used as
a toy.

Woman: But you have been nourished, nursed!

The goldfinch: But I was free, I looked after me… and I was
happy, I sang happy.

The Angel: There are other animals which are victims of your
foolishness.

Man: Who are they?

Rhinoceros: I am the black rhinoceros. I lived in the
central and austral Africa.

Woman: You still live there!

Rhinoceros: Let is say I survive there… but till when? We
are only 2.000!

Woman: But what has the foolishness got to do with that?

Rhinoceros: While you kill the other animals for their skin
and other things, you kill me because you think my horn has some powers that on
the contrary it has not, and it is sold at 60.000 per kilo in America and in
Japan.

Man: Ok, ok Angel tell me… nothing else?

The Angel: Yes… there are the living beings of the vegetable
kingdom.

The tree: I am an African cherry tree and I am at risk.

Woman: Risk? What kind of risk? And what do you risk?

The tree: I am talking about extinction. We were billions,
we were high, then we were cut down and never planted again. I am also here on
behalf of the Brazilian mahogany, it is dying out too as the population who
lived in its woods: the Indios.

Whale: I am the whale, in the past years they hunted me for
my oil then with the coming of petroleum I lived in peace…

The Angel: And now?

Whale: They have started again, they kill us because of our
by-products, we are dying out!

The Angel: Someone else?

Shark: Me!

Man: What do you want?

Shark: You have demonised me with the horror films.

Woman: But you are a dangerous fish!

Shark: It is not true! I am a little eel, and now there are
fools who haunt me for my fins and my teeth.

Woman: Your teeth are the dream of dentists!

The Angel: Man… things are looking bad!

Chorus: (Everybody) 'Man, man….'

The Angel: Someone else?

Seal: Me!

Woman: A seal….!

Seal: Yes I am a victim of man and his cupidity. Millions of
pups killed for their skin.

Man: Ok… I am guilty, but stop this it is ridiculous!

Penguin: We have not finished yet and you are ridiculous!
You deny the evidence of facts.

Woman: What do you want? You are not dying out!

Penguin: I come from the Arctic I am the emperor penguin. I
am here on behalf of my brothers penguins as for example the king penguin etc..

Woman: Why are you accusing us?

Penguin: In the Antarctic the first flowers have appeared
and so the ice has decreased.

Man: So what?

Penguin: The biological cycle is changing, the greenhouse
effect is melting the glaciers. If this happens, many living beings like me
will die.

Woman: It is not so serious!

Penguin: Stupid… ignorant, if the glaciers melted the sea
level would be over 200 metres in the world submerging all the cities. This is
not only a problem for us but also for you.

Cow: Just a moment please, it is my turn now!

Man: What do you want mad cow? Are you complaining too?!

Cow: You are mad! You turned me into a carnivorous animal.
Now that you have poisoned me I will poison you. If you do not change your mind
you will kill yourself!

Man: Oh… please forgive me!

Chorus: 'Man… man…'

The Angel: As you can see your selfishness, your
thoughtlessness are destroying our earth.

Earth: Did someone call me? (An exterior voice)

The Angel: Yes it was me… would you like to say something?

Earth: Sure! I am choking, my ecosystem is at the end. I
cannot recycle the billions of poisons, of waste products of which man has
overloaded me!

Man: But…

The Angel: Listen!

Earth: You have to make a change, a reversal of trend both
for your and our survival.

Woman: Are you crazy?

Earth: No I am not crazy. Millions of chemical biological
by-products, pesticides and several poisons have changed my rivers, my seas, my
atmosphere and also the biological cycle of different animals and insects.

The Angel: You see… you have changed your planet. His life
and yours are in danger!

Woman: What can we do?

The Angel: You have to stop the progress, you have to
recreate the biological and environmental conditions necessary to your
survival. If you do not mend your ways nature will be your executioner. The
reversed climate… seasons will be your executioners. They will cause the sun in
the winter and the snow in the summer. The worst is yet to come! Look I am
warning you!

Earth: The nuclear explosions in my atmosphere, into my seas
are choking me. They are choking the life of all the living beings: vegetables,
animals and minerals.

The Angel: I am warning you, mend your ways. (The man and
the woman fall on their back) Save your planet!(He goes away)